{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous provisions as to powers of youth courts.",
  "text": "(1) A youth court sitting for the purpose of hearing a charge against, . . . , a person who is believed to be a child or young person may, if it thinks fit to do so, proceed with the hearing and determination of the charge . . . notwithstanding that it is discovered that the person in question is not a child or young person.\n[(2 The attainment of the age of eighteen years by . . . a person in whose case an order for conditional discharge has been made, shall not deprive a youth court of jurisdiction to enforce his attendance and deal with him in respect of . . . the commission of a further offence . . . .\n(3) When a youth court has remanded a child or young person for information to be obtained with respect to him, any youth courtacting in the same local justice area—\n(a) may in his absence extend the period for which he is remanded, so, however, that he appears before a court or a justice of the peace at least once in every twenty-one days;\n(b) when the required information has been obtained, may deal with him finally;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a youth courtmay sit on any day for the purpose of hearing and determining a charge against a child or young person in respect of an indictable offence.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 48 substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(a); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (c. 37), s. 64, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 48(2) substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(2) substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 68, 101(1), Sch. 8 para. 1(2), Sch. 12 para. 22(1); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(3) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 75; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), Sch. 10 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (c. 55), s. 132, Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 48(5) repealed (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 106, 108(3)(f), Sch. 15 Pt. V(1) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 48(6) repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7, Pt. III"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:27.642197+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}